In my experiments with the SVN version of LyX, I've found that the only things you needed to install (other than the Qt dependencies) is the current version of the Qt SDK/QtCreator (available as package installer from Nokia) and CMake. This has worked for me on all the major platforms, though I haven't spent nearly as much time on the Mac as I have on Windows and Linux.
>From there, you simply navigate to the CMakeLists.txt file and Qt Creator takes care of configuring and compiling everything. This was much easier than struggling with the automake scripts. If new users are looking for guidance, that would be the route that I would recommend. It's the same on every platform and most of the configuration steps remain invisible. Cheers, Rob -----Original Message----- From: Abdelrazak Younes [mailto:you...@lyx.org] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:50 AM To: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW Cc: rgheck; Jürgen Spitzmüller; Uwe Stöhr; lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Towards LyX 1.7 (2.0) Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >> ... Windows people just shy away frustrated :-) >> > > Compiling for Windows is not easy. Another todo-list, to either document better or to make it better. > > In the beginning I had problems compiling both on Linux as on Windows. That delayed my active participation with two years or something. > > If there is anything we could do to make this more easy.. > > I like Cmake on windows, but it seems (to me) you can't use this with the precompiled qt binaries. Wrong. I used the latest MSVC compiled Qt4.6 from Nokia: works just fine! Abdel.
